super duper uberthread

[poma]

On 29.03.2014 12:48, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 03:59 +0100, poma wrote:
>> On 26.03.2014 23:58, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 22:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>> David G.  Miller wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The funny thing is that back in the earliest days of Unix, /usr is where
>>>>> user directories lived.  When K&R ran out of room in / for programs, they
>>>>> looked to for a partition that had additional space available and it was
>>>>> /usr.  Originally programs ended up in /usr/bin simply because there
>>>>> wasn't room for them in /bin; not for some usage reason.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I recall that the first Unix system I ran, version 5 on a pdp-11/23,
>>>> had two (enormous) 10MB disks, one for the kernel and the other /usr .
>>>
>>> That ain't nuttin'. We started with an 11/45 with 48KB of core memory
>>> and 2 RK05's (2.2MB removable cartridge disks).
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>>
>> No matter how small disk can be, can't beat a punched card.
> 
> Been there, done that. Also patched paper-tape to fix bugs.
> 
> poc
> 

Whence the 'patch' comes. :)
Pat, you are a unixsaur. :)


poma